Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-11-09
RALEIGH
NEWS NOTES From ALL OVER NORTH
CAROLINA.
Two Lives Lost in Attempting to Save a
Dog-Railread Matters-Per-
sonals and Briefs.
IspecIal teleeram to the pI.patch.l

Especial telegram to the Dispatch.l
RALEIGH, n. c., November S.-New
was received here to-day of an acciden
near Middleburg, Nance county, b.
which two men, both white, lost thei
lives. A. X. Fleming. the owner Of {
mill, was on his pond in boat, accom-
panied 10y his miller A dog was in thu
boat and fell overheard. In attempting
to get the dog back into the boat The
boat was capsized.- The men were throw
out into deep water and drowned.
Rev. A. f. Clark, of Chapel Hill, hat
been called to the rectorate Of the Churcl
OF the Good Shepherd in this city to fiji
the vacancy caused by the Rev. Rober
Strange's resignation.
November crop reports are coming il
slowly at the Department of Agriculture
Some of them show that in some sections
only two-thirds of the cotton is picked
Governor Scales returned this after
noon from visit of some days at Greens
boro'.
Great interest is manifested here in the
Virginia elections, and the bulletin
btHiNo AZ tiObIl1 NdlJutus
The Board Of Trustees Of the STATE
Agricultural and Mechanical College
meet here tomorrow to consider mat.
tiers relative to the commencement OF
work.
Emma Hamilton, n white woman OF
bad reputation, was fatally burned at
Durham last night by kerosene explo-
sion, She is from Chicago.
p. Dinehan & Co., of this city. have
been awarded the contract for building
twenty-five miles of the Durham and
Northern railway-twelve miles leading
from Durham and ten from Henderson.
All financial arrangements for building
this road are perfected. II is expected
that it will connect with the Danville and
Seaboard road at Henderson. IL has
been given by the railroad commission
the right OF way over the lands Of the
North Carolina railroad into Durham
The award OF land so made is about
seven acres. Counsel for the North
Carolina road has given notice OF an APP
peal from the decision.
Rain again set in this morning early
and doubtless made the people interested
in the fairs at Fayetteville and Iarboro'
feel quite blue. The general unlucki-
ness of the year for fairs has been a sub
ject of much comment, and it is safe to
say that next season they will be fixed
for earlier dates.
The docket of appeals from the
Seventh Judicial district. on which the
Supreme Court is this week engaeed. IS
the heaviest of any from the twelve dis
tricts. There are nearly fifty cases.
A rumor is current in some Of the
eastern counties that there is 10 he new
coast line of railway owned and operated
by the Pennsylvania road.
Work is reported to he progressing
very actively on the Oxford and Clarks-
vile railway. A gentleman who has
been in Granville county some days
learned that a survey was certainly being
made from Oxford in the direction of
Raleigh. and the popular belief there is
that these points are to be connected by
a new direct line of rail.
At Trinity College a special course OF
winter lectures has been arranged The
first of the series will be by Major S. VI.
Finger, State Superintendent OF Public
instruction, in December probably.
There is an earnest hope that the peO-
pie in the State will be very generous at
Thanksgiving time TO the Oxford Or
phan Asylum. There are DID or
phaus there, and over 70 more are appli-
cants for admission. The institution
needs material aid in all sorts Of ways.
will be taken in most OF the
churches which have services that day
for this specific purpose, bat all should
lend helping hand.
To-day was set for the opening Of the
Chowan Fair at Murfreesboro'. Colonel
Thomas NJ. Holt, of Haw River, deliv-
cred the annual address.
At the soldiers reunion at Taylors-
vile, Alexander county. a few days ago,
lie curious fact was reported that of one
family in that county, named Robinett,
sixteen were in the North Carolina
service during the late war. Thirteen
we're in one company, and of these five
were killed by. the explosion of one
she'll in one Of the great battles in Yir-
ginia.